From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 27 19:42: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from penelope.skunk.org (unknown [208.133.204.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8049E152CF for ; Sun, 27 Jun 1999 19:42:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@penelope.skunk.org) Received: from localhost (ben@localhost) by penelope.skunk.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA10989; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 02:39:25 GMT Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 02:39:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Ben Rosengart To: David Malone Cc: Aaron Smith , Sheldon Hearn , Keith Stevenson , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Inetd and wrapping. In-Reply-To: <19990625201201.A10893@boole.maths.tcd.ie> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, David Malone wrote: > Some people think that doing the hosts.allow lookup is too expensive > for some services but not others. (It requires opening /etc/hosts.allow, > reading it in line by line and possibly doing DNS lookups). I would hope that anyone concerned about speed would be writing tcp-wrappers rules with numbers, not names. -- Ben UNIX Systems Engineer, Skunk Group StarMedia Network, Inc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message